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W. LOHRER.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV- l. I9l 6.

Patented May 22, 1917.

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RIBBON-REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed November 1, 1916. Serial No. 128,955.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Lonnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at River Forest, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ribbon-Reels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to reels provided for receiving ribbon, or other fabric in strip form.

As reeled ribbon has heretofore been pro vided in the trade it has been necessary for the seller of the ribbon upon drawing off a portion thereof from the reel, to apply a fastening device to the free end of the ribbon in order that it be prevented from unwinding from the reel. This fastening device has usually been a pin which is thrust through the free. end of the ribbon into underlying layers of the ribbon to pin the free end in place. This practice has resulted in a number of disadvantages. chief among which is that of damaging the ribbon, which damage is quite marked, especially if the pin is thrust through many of the underlying layers of the ribbon. Furthermore, the fastoning of the ends of the ribbon by the means just stated is objectionable, especially where the reels are made of such proportions as to permit as many as fifty yards of ribbon to be wound thereon, this being the more recent practice, inasmuch as, especially if the ribbon is of narrow width, it is difficult to insert a pin to fastening position when a small portion only of the ribbon is left on the reel.

My object is to provide a novel and simple means for retaining the free end of the ribbon in close contact with the underlying layer of the ribbon, without danger of injury thereto and whichwill operate to perform this function regardless of the amount of ribbon withdrawn from the reel, and another object is to provide a reel of such construction that any part of the unwound ribbon may be rewound upon the reel to a position in which the extremity of the free end of the ribbon will be held by the securing means above referred to.

Referring to the accompanying drawina e l near st-i Pf a reel constructed in accordance with my invention, a portion of one of the side-members, or disks, of the reel being shown partly broken away; Fig. 2 is a view in vertical sectional elevation of the reel of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a broken view in elevation of one of the disks of the reel and a sprin presser-device for holding the free end 0 the ribbon in place, this view looking toward the inner surface of the said disk; and Fig. 4:, a perspective view, showing the inner face of a washer employed.

My improved ribbon-reel, as constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of my invention, is formed of two side-members or disks 5 and 6, which preferably are made of cardboard, but which may be made of any other suitable material and preferably circular in shape and of the same diameter; a core 7 with means for holding together the parts just described, and means for engaging the free end of the ribbon to hold it in place. The core 7 which may be of wood or any other suitable material, is located between the, disks 5 and 6 and is rigidly connected with the'disk 5 through the medium of a washer 8 which fits flatwise against the face of the disk 5 and has prongs 9 which pierce the disk 5 and extend into the core ,7, thus securing these parts together against relative rotation. The disk 6 is so associated with the core 7 that these parts are relatively rotatable, this being accomplished in the construction illustrated by journaling the disk 6 at a central opening 10 therein upon one end of a pin or stud 11 which extends through the washer 8, disks 5 and 6, and core 7. By preference the stud 11 is provided in the form of a rivet, as shown, one of its headed ends being provided on the rivet preliminary to assembling it with the other parts of the structure, and the other head being upset after the parts are as sembled. i

In practice the cores 7 would have wound thereon at the factory the ribbon to be applied to the reels, and the cores 7, with the ribbon thereon then assembled with the other parts of the structure, as described.

The me ns as shown or holding the free end of the ribbon against unwinding, comprise a presser-device 12, shown as formed of a piece of spring-wire, though it may be formed of any other suitable material, the wire intermediate its ends being bent to the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to present a bar-section 13, preferably of a width slightly greater than the width of the ribbon represented at 141, with deflected sections 15 at opposite ends of the bar-section, which overlap the edges of the ribbon as shown in the drawings, the ends of the wirebeing then brought together and twisted, as represented at 16, this twisted portion having an angularly disposed section 17, which extends transversely of the reel and connects with a section 18, preferably formed of one end only of the wire, which is arranged preferably to extend radially of the axis of the reel. The parts of the presserdevice are so constructed and arranged, as shown, that the part 16 thereof will extend circumferentially of the ribbon 14 and the bar 13 bears against the outer surface of the wound ribbon, as shown in Fig. 1. The presser-device 12 lies at its section 18 against the inner surface of the disk 6, to which it is rigidly secured by means of a clip 19, its

'section 18 being provided with an eye 20 which surrounds the stud and is located between the disk 6 and the core 7. The parts of the presser-device would be so constructed that, when assembled with the other parts of the reel with the full length of ribbon wound thereon, it will be sprung, against its tendency to return to normal position, to a degree sufiicient to cause it to bear against the free end of the ribbon with sufficient force to hold the latter against unwinding until practically all of the ribbon has been unwound from the reel.

In using the reel the operator grasps the disk 6 in the fingers of one hand with the palm fiatwise opposing the outer surface of this disk and with the other grasps the free end 21 of the ribbon and pulls on the latter, in which operation the roll of ribbon, core '7, disk 5 and washer 8 rotate relative to the disk 6 and the presser-device 12. After the operator has withdrawn from the reel the length of ribbon required and has cut it off he may rewind upon the reel that portion of the ribbon which extends beyond the bar 13 to a position in which the extreme end of the ribbon, or approximately the extreme end, is engaged by the bar 13, by grasping the disk and rotating it in the opposite direction to that in which it was rotated when the ribbon was being withdrawn from the reel as abovedescribed.

- It will be understood from the foregoing that the presserdevice moves at its barsection 1" 3 toward the center of the reel as the ribbon is withdrawn therefrom and by bearing against the ribbon not only prevents it from accidentally becoming unwound from the reel, but also operates to maintain the ribbon under the same tension at which it was wound upon the core 7.

It will also be manifest that ribbon wound upon a reel in accordance with my invention, by not having fastening devices thrust through sections of the ribbon, is not injured or in any way impaired in the course of withdrawing from the reel portions of the ribbon at different times, as is customary in the sale of ribbon in retail stores, and furthermore that the danger of the free ends of the ribbon becoming loose and damaged thereby is avoided and the ribbon is always displayed in such a way as to make it attractive to purchasers.

VVhile- I have illustrated and described a particular construction constituting what I now regard as the preferred embodiment of my invention, I do not wish to be understood as intending to limit it thereto, as the same may be variously modified and altered without departing from the spirit of my invention, it being my intention to claim my invention as fully and completely as the prior state of the art will permit.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A ribbon-reel comprising, in combination, a pair of disks, a core interposed therebetween and rigid with one of said disks and rotatable with relation to the other of said disks, and a presser-device carried by said last-named disk and adapted to press yieldingly against the periphery of the roll of ribbon wound on said disk.

2. A ribbon-reel comprising in combination, a pair of disks, a core interposed there between and rotatable with relation to one of said disks, and a presser-device carried by said last-named disk and extending laterally therefrom into the space between said disks and adapted to press yieldingly against the periphery of the roll of ribbon wound on said core.

A. ribbon-reel comprising in combination, a pair of disks, a core interposed therebetween, means for rigidly securing one of said disks to said core and rendering the other of said disks rotatable with relation to said core, including a member which extends through said core, a presser-device carried by said last-named disk and adapted to press yieldingly against the periphery of the roll of ribbon wound on said core, and means engaging said presser-device for rigidly holding it to said last-named disk, the end of said device opposite that which engages the ribbon operatively engaging said member to aid in the holding of said presser-device rigidly to the disk carrying it.

4. A; ribbon reel comprising in combination, a pair of disks, a core connected thereribbon Wound on said core, the part of said with and interposed therebetween, and a resser-device Which bears against the roll presser-device arranged to extend into the of ribbon having sections extending at space between said disks and be held staangles thereto between which the peripheral 10 5 tionary relative to said core and yieldingly portion of said roll is embraced.

press against the periphery of the roll of WILLIAM LOHRER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

